Today there is few more releases which builded with usage of GL4ES wrapper which mean to give us OpenGL1.x , 2.x and some of 3.x over ogles2.library and warp3dnova.

Introduction...:

For make those games works you need as necessary minimum ogles2.library v2.8 , and warp3dnova.library v1.65. Those requirements are 100% necessary. You can get them from latest Enhancer Software update v1.5, or via from Updater. If you will have anything lower than requested, you will have bugs, crushes and errors. So before making any bugreport later, be sure that you have those versions at minimum. And if you sure, then anyway recheck again that you have it installed :)

Of course it is understandable that you also should have modern gfx card, with latest radeonHD drivers.

Everything is compiled via gcc 8.2.0, latest SDL2 with necessary fixes to make it rendered through ogles2.library and GL4ES.

At this time there is 2 new titles and one update, all of them can be downloaded from os4depot. At moment they all in upload query. All the videos and screenshots below taken from my x5k/aos4fe.

Foobillard++...:

That one are complex OpenGL game that uses cascaded display list, line stipple, TexGen and co. Previously we have some old MiniGL port of pure Foobillard (not ++), which is slow and buggy. New ++ version also can be build over MiniGL with some small changes, but its so slow even on x5k that it not worth of try. See the FPS numbers in 1024x768 on my x5k.

minigl 2.21: ~10fps ogles2 2.8: ~60fps

Port based on the latest, v3.42beta, stable source release and original code of the game was quite buggy, so it take some time to fix those bugs (thanks to Georg & Daniel). I also had to rewrite SDL1 to SDL2 and fix some endian issues. There is full list of changes of v1 release:

-- added SDL2 support via --enable-sdl2. This port builds over SDL2. -- gl4es is used for OpenGL (so ogles2/warp3dnova) -- amigaos4 pathes, stack cookie -- builded with gcc 8.2.0 and enabled LTO. -- added big-endian changes in place where loading of ball_ball.raw happens and it expected to be in LE format -- when you choice in menu "manual", "game_history" or "touranment_history" Odyssey is used, but you can change it to any browser you need (or by changing config file, or by changing ViewOptions/Browser in menu). -- running of external commands (such as browser) done via aos4's IDOS->SystemTags() in Async mode (thanks to Salas00 for code which works when run game and from shell and from wb icon) -- original game's code bug: in billard3d.c/load_config() forgotten fclose(), because of which save_config() on exit didn't works -- original game's code bug: in sound_stuff.c/strsound() there was some typo from author strcpy(s,&s[strlen(s)-4]) , while should be strcpy(s,&s1[strlen(s1)-4]), which cause heavy memory issues in end (c) Daytona -- original game's code bug: parent_entry in the menu_new() wasn't initialized, which cause crashes later in some situation in the menu_choose(); visually it just crashes when you choice some of menus (c) Georg -- original game's code bug: when blitting menu entries, sometime blitting happens outside of left bounds and thus trashing memory and cause heap corruption, which in end lead to crash on free(textdata) later (c) Georg -- original game's code bug: initially checking on minimum screenmode was wrong and thus skip some modes which can fits.

Youtube video, full HD 1920x1080: https://youtu.be/hQVabA_ReoQ

Actual code with all the AmigaOS4 and other changes listed below can be found at https://github.com/kas1e/FoobillardPlusPlus

If you find any bug , plz report it on the same page there: https://github.com/kas1e/FoobillardPlusPlus/issues/new

Neverball/Neverputt 1.6.0...:

Previously we have some older 1.5.4 version of neverball games compiled over minigl, but it's quite dated and as usuall for minigl : slow. The new version use SDL2, latest PhysFS, and compiled over gl4es (so ogles2/warp3dnova) , which give us quite boost in the speed in compare with 1.5.4 version. Have a look at those FPS numbers (be sure you have ogles2 2.8 and w3dnova 1.65):

The minigl version of 1.6.0 probabaly possible only after some code changes (and maybe in MiniGL itself as well): at least from brief tests when i tried to compile 1.6.0 version for minigl, it just crashed in some minigl functions, so it can be that minigl no more fits in.

Youtube, full HD 1920x1080: https://youtu.be/TSug2SePrSs

Friking shark update...:

Friking shark was released before, but some bugs since then was fixed as well as some new functionality added:

Thanks to Daniel for OpenGL ES2 and all his help with everything : http://www.goldencode.de/ Thanks to Hans for Warp3DNova and all his help with everything : https://keasigmadelta.com/ Thanks to AEON who actually pay developers (yes, unusual in amiga world) , so we have OpenGL ES2 and Warp3DNova. Thanks to ptitSeb for GL4ES and all his help with everything : https://github.com/ptitSeb/gl4es/ Thanks to Capehill (and others) for actual SDL2 port and all his help with everything : https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL

Unfortunally, on my X1000, Neverball hits 100% CPU time even in pause mode, and the game lags with pause every half second. FPS are around 20 only. I don't have this with Neverputt that runs smooth.Same problem with Friking shark! When light effect appear on screen (fe: explosions) it displays like a slide show.

@PetrolMaybe something in your startup , or running in background which make it reacts like this ? As you can see on neverball's video i have no problems. Maybe some dockie cause that ? Like cpu-measuring one, or something ? Try to run it without anything else running.

Strange. I tried the neverball's miniGL version and this one is really playable, with arround 60fps on 1920*1080 screen.I asked on french forum before posting here, and I wasn't the only one to get this results.I'll have a look again tomorrow.

Strange. I tried the neverball's miniGL version and this one is really playable, with arround 60fps on 1920*1080 screen.I've also suspected amidock, and I tried to run neverball without amidock running, no change.I asked on french forum before posting here, and I wasn't the only one to get this results.I'll have a look again tomorrow.

@PetrolThat sound strange. I mean, for me (and as i see for many others) new neverball faster in 2 times than minigl one. Seems something different between our setups. Maybe you have some debug version of some driver which throw output to serial which make it slower ? Like, debug version of warp3dnova, or radeonhd, or so ? Can you check if anything throws on serial ?

Also, check my neverball video: is it not like this for you, right ? Can you make your video so i can see how it visually (and neverball and friking shark)

@PetrolThat sound strange. I mean, for me (and as i see for many others) new neverball faster in 2 times than minigl one. Seems something different between our setups. Maybe you have some debug version of some driver which throw output to serial which make it slower ? Like, debug version of warp3dnova, or radeonhd, or so ? Can you check if anything throws on serial ?

Also, check my neverball video: is it not like this for you, right ? Can you make your video so i can see how it visually (and neverball and friking shark)

Or maybe you simply mix minigl version and new one ?

Or maybe you have installed Huno's egl wrapper which may have impact on ? (If so, try to delete from envarc all LIBGL* files, from both places, temp one and permanent one, reboot, check that envarc didnt have LIBGL* files and then try)

@PetrolThat sound strange. I mean, for me (and as i see for many others) new neverball faster in 2 times than minigl one. Seems something different between our setups. Maybe you have some debug version of some driver which throw output to serial which make it slower ? Like, debug version of warp3dnova, or radeonhd, or so ? Can you check if anything throws on serial ?

Also, check my neverball video: is it not like this for you, right ? Can you make your video so i can see how it visually (and neverball and friking shark)

Or maybe you simply mix minigl version and new one ? Because how you can have 60fps with minigl version, if i have ony about 30 in first level on my x5k. Try to delete everything and install only last, gl4es one.

Or maybe you have installed Huno's egl wrapper which may have impact on ? (If so, try to delete from envarc all LIBGL* files, from both places, temp one and permanent one, reboot, check that envarc didnt have LIBGL* files and then try)